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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is meeting with Donald Trump in Florida today to smooth things over, but that’s just one of the issues he’s trying to fix. He’s also attempting to keep House Republicans from attacking each other publicly after a contentious impeachment vote and mend relationships with donors after businesses hit pause on their corporate PACs over the GOP’s anti-certification vote.
Vaccine rollout skips TSA screeners, air-traffic controllers
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
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A TSA agent wearing a protective mask screens travelers at a checkpoint at O Hare International Airport in Chicago on June 13, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon.
They re essential workers performing critical safety work and have been assigned priority designation to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Yet tens of thousands of airport security screeners, air-traffic controllers and federal accident investigators who must report to work in spite of the virus ravaging the U.S. haven t gotten the shot and aren t sure how and when they will. It s incredibly frustrating, said Jennifer Homendy, one of five members of the National Transportation Safety Board. The vaccine rollout from my point of view has been mismanaged.
President Joe Biden has used his first days in office to reset relations with federal workers. Credit: Adam Schultz/Biden for President/Flickr
US President Joe Biden has used his first days in office to reset relations with federal professionals, reversing a number of executive orders issued by his predecessor Donald Trump that were seen by many as an attempt to politicise and undermine the civil service.
In an executive order, released last week under the title “protecting the federal workforce”, Biden revoked ‘Schedule F’ – which would have removed employment protections for all those involved in providing policy advice – and reversed the anti-union thrust of three Trump executive orders from May 2018.
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